Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, like none but the greatest of white papers, the Courier had a war correspondent in France. He was a onetime Chicago postal clerk named Reno Walter Merguson, who fought with the U. S. Army in World War I, stayed on in Paris after the War as a tourist guide. He used to drive Negro travelers over the battlefields in an old automobile, send in items about them to the Courier. Presently Editor Vann gave him a full-time job as the Courier's European correspondent...
Divorced. Conrad Thibault, 34, opera & radio baritone who as a choirboy was encouraged by the late Calvin Coolidge to make singing his career; by Elinor Kendall Thibault, 29; in Reno, Nev. Immediately after the divorce, Mrs. Thibault married Frank James Welton, 23, of New York...
Divorced. Miriam Hopkins, 36, blonde, hot-eyed cinemactress; from Anatole Litvak, 37, Russian-born Paris and Hollywood director (Mayerling, Tovarich-); in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...aggregation of measures, laws, decisions in principle agreed to. It had the NLRB that put into law the belief that strong trade unions were of social value ("This is the greatest work of my life," said Senator Wagner), and although the San Francisco Stock Exchange threatened to move to Reno if "ham-and-eggs" went through in California, innovations generally led to no such drastic action. At whatever cost, the accomplishments of reform remained: TVA, reforestation, soil erosion control, Grand Coulee...
...clearly see its business vanishing into other States if "ham-&-eggs" brought the threat of an annual tax of $3,000,000-a tax greater than the total of brokers' commissions. If "ham-&-eggs" passed, announced President William R. Bacon, the Exchange would move to taxfree, divorce-famed Reno, Nev. No idle bluff was Frisco's Stock Exchange making. For last week papers for the incorporation of The San Francisco Stock Exchange Inc. were filed in Reno, and a Reno realtor was readying specifications for a handsome stock exchange building, safely across the line from California...